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(FPIF) – When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for a presidential and parliamentary election June 24 — jumping the gun by more than a year — the outcome seemed foreordained. After all, the country is under a state of…

(Sputnik) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s rival in the upcoming September election has slammed the leader for not standing up to US President Donald Trump. Martin Schulz, a Social Democrat (SPD), has been hitting the campaign stump in his attempt to unseat Merkel,…

Turkey (KurdPress) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed his wish that his upcoming talks with U.S. President Donald Trump will constitute a new beginning in Turkey-U.S. ties, Hurriyet daily reported. The Turkish president expressed his hope that Washington will…

Iraq (Sputnik) – Turkey is reportedly preparing another air operation in Iraq’s Sinjar area, in a bid to destroy the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s communication channel between Syria and Iraq. After the town of Sinjar was liberated from Daesh (ISIS/ISIL), the Sinjar Resistance Forces, which…

Syria (KurdPress) – Will US rethink plans for Raqqa? In May 2016, we asked how long the United States and Turkey could keep up appearances of alliance and partnership in Syria, given differences over US backing for the Syrian Kurdish People’s…

Turkey (EAN) – Before he immersed himself in politics, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was a moderately talented footballer. It is not surprising, then, that when he reflected on mid-April’s constitutional referendum in Turkey, a vote that narrowly approved the creation…

Turkey (Sputnik) – Commenting on the results of Turkey’s constitutional referendum, which was declared by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a ‘yes’ vote to expand his presidential authorities, Ahmet Erdi Öztürk, research assistant at the University of Strasbourg explained to Sputnik…

Turkey (FPIF) – Turkey’s leader will apparently stop at nothing to centralize power — and every move that backfires makes him even more desperate. At first glance, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s drive to create an executive presidency with almost unlimited power…

Turkey (Sputnik) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara is dissatisfied with the attention Russia and the United States are paying to the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party. Ankara is dissatisfied with the attention Russia and the United States are paying…

Germany (Sputnik) – Around 30,000 Kurds and Kurdish supporters took to the streets of the German city of Frankfurt on Saturday to protest against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the approaching referendum that would vastly expand his powers. The demonstrators,…

Turkey (Sputnik) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Western countries on Sunday of delivering arms to terrorists in the Middle East, with his accusations following recent bans on Turkish ministers by the Netherlands and Germany. On Saturday, the Dutch authorities…

Turkey (GPA) – A leaked report by European Union intelligence allegedly shows that Erdogan planned purges of military officials before July and that it was this plan, not exiled cleric Fetullah Gülen that sparked the coup. The secret report was assembled…

Turkey (Tasnim) – Turkish lawmakers on Thursday approved three more articles in a hugely controversial bill bolstering the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as lawmakers brawled and threw objects in a session of high tension. Lawmakers have since the start…

Turkish President Recep Erdogan said in a press conference yesterday that he has proof of the US aiding terrorists in Syria such as the Kurdish YPG and PYD but also including the Islamic State (IS).

Erdogan said it was “very clear” that the US is arming and supporting “terrorist groups including Daesh (IS)” as well as the Kurdish YPG (People’s Protection Units) and PYD (Democratic Union Party). The US is currently at odds with Turkey over whether the YPG and PYD are actually terror groups and the US sees them as “reliable partners” in the war against IS despite Turkish claims of their connections to the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party). The PKK is agreed to be a terrorist group by the US, EU and Turkey.

The US does work with some Kurdish groups under the umbrella of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) which also includes some pro-Turkish elements of the Free Syrian Army (FSA). State Department spokesman Mark Toner addressed these claims in his daily press briefing saying that the US has “never provided weapons to the YPG.”

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